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RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:58 pm

All training scrapped in the current financial year - straight from MOD.

Stand down till May 2010. Shocked

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:05 pm

Sho' ting.

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:09 pm

CGS/CinC give you a call did they?

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:09 pm

Bravo_Bravo:
Sho' ting.

That's suspended too.

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:11 pm

twiggylad:
All training scrapped in the current financial year - straight from MOD.

Stand down till May 2010. Shocked

So I take it Bullsh*t Bob told you in person?

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:12 pm

The duty rumour is that Her Madge sent him a text!

[edited for being a one-hand-typing mong]

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:13 pm

No wah unfortunately. Sad

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:13 pm

twiggylad:
Bravo_Bravo:
Sho' ting.

That's suspended too.
Classic Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:14 pm

6 posts to his name... let's not take too much notice.

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:29 pm

It's true, Herrick's cancelled aswell until May.

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:41 pm

therealbigdizzle:
6 posts to his name... let's not take too much notice.

Don't then.

Wait for your unit to tell you, although i suspect the papers will pick this up over the weekend.

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:49 pm

WAh Shield off

Funny that as there is nothing listed here:

Mod news linky


Stilts

Wah Shield back on!

I detect a very poor WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:49 pm

Be a shorter Lord Mayors Parade then, unless they pack it out with more spackers and efnic diversity mongs.......

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:59 pm

Woe, Woe, and Thrice Woe........

Although I cannot confirm twiggylad's announcement, I can say that pretty shortly, unless your training is directly linked to Ops, it will cease. Stop. Desist. You can still turn up, I suppose, but don't expect to be paid for it.

In case you haven't noticed, this Government has spent all our money, and all our children's money, and borrowed against our grandchildren's earnings.

The MOD in particular is hard hit because:
a) it is fighting a war/insurgency/insectSurrection/Civil War/ whatever you like to call it, and
b) it is not about to get a penny more from the Treasury. Ergo, to fight the war even halfway 'properly', it means taking money from everywhere else. This means the TA, as well as many many other areas. The reasons for this late shift in priorities are easy enough to discern. Firstly, there's an election due next year, and secondly, there's an election due next year. Expect more knee-jerk quick fixes for the next six months.

Don't book a Spring Break on the back of TA earnings, is all I'm saying....

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:11 pm

doublecrease:
It's true, Herrick's cancelled aswell until May.

Anyone informed the Regular Army of that?

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:15 pm

Jacques_Bustard:
doublecrease:
It's true, Herrick's cancelled aswell until May.

Anyone informed the Regular Army of that?

Quieten down now in the cheap seats. Just take your compulsory swine flu vaccine that will weaken your immune system and kill you shortly. With no armed forces and no health care workers it will be easy to finish most of the rest of the population off.
Regular army? Pah! Surplus to requirements.
Now where the fukc is my tin foil hat....

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:16 pm

OldSnowy:
Although I cannot confirm twiggylad's announcement, I can say that pretty shortly, unless your training is directly linked to Ops, it will cease. Stop. Desist. You can still turn up, I suppose, but don't expect to be paid for it.

Had that run against me for the next unit w/e. Luckily, I missed the previous version of this because I was deployed and SOPs say min 1/yr for my role to be deployable ... And that was just the T&S - I'm well off hitting my MTD limit (having had all of them this year out of the op budget not the Bde one.)

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:22 pm

Can units survive 6 months sans training and expect people to turn up to whatever is in store next year?

Looks like we will be be the credit crunch's first public casualty.

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:23 pm

Picasso:
Jacques_Bustard:
doublecrease:
It's true, Herrick's cancelled aswell until May.

Anyone informed the Regular Army of that?

Quieten down now in the cheap seats. Just take your compulsory swine flu vaccine that will weaken your immune system and kill you shortly. With no armed forces and no health care workers it will be easy to finish most of the rest of the population off.
Regular army? Pah! Surplus to requirements.
Now where the fukc is my tin foil hat....

Oh * that was frightening! Would you believe my job is an immunisation co-ordinator and swine flu vaccination currently my number one task.

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Re: RIP TA

Post Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:23 pm

Sadly I suspect this is no Wah and the way I hear it all budgets are effectively withdrawn forthwith..........C1 may still be possible.

I'll get the lights !!!!!!

YM

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